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IZA TARASEWICZ – By the apparent impossibility of arranging signs

14.11.2014 – 30.12.2014

Arsenal Gallery, ul. A. Mickiewicza 2, Białystok

Iza Tarasewicz’s objects are not static entities, but materials and signs in constant and continuous fluctuation. The artist’s sensitive examination of base materials is an interpretive exercise that demonstrates moments of fusion and fission and emphasizes missing, compressed, distorted, displaced, or degraded information. Each object and arrangement functions as a temporary proposition tested through rigorous experimentations with matter. Her configurations are attempts at activating order and energetic relationships, while equally exposing her processes and elements to the turbulence of chaos and failure. As the poet Louis Armand noted, “Tarasewicz’s work invites us to envisage ‘possibility’—not implied possibilities, other possibilities, unrealized possibilities, but…the formal lineaments of possibility as such.”

Born and raised in Bialystok, Iza Tarasewicz spent the last year on residency at the Kunstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin. Over this time, her projects increasingly focused on lines, graphs, and models that were appropriated and transferred from statistical, technical, spiritual, biological, thermodynamic, and cosmological diagrams—figures of thoughts and charts of relations that systematize knowledge and abstractly describe the interaction of phenomena. Her exhibition at Galeria Arsenalis the third variation in a continuously evolving series of presentations that began with her solo exhibitions Strange Attractors (Polish Insitute, Berlin), and Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments (Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, in cooperation with the Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation). Operating within specific material and productive constraints, for this project the artist has produced a series of dynamic systems manifested in a three-dimensional phase space. Each sequence of lines, surfaces, bodies, and aggregations are at once autonomous and interacting in a broader composition within a field of continuously shifting observation. Not only are the works attempts at spatializing information (implanting bodies in a field so as to elaborate laws of correlation, affect, and mutual position), but they also accentuate the ways objects themselves produce and distort perceptions of space. The rationalist conceits of linear perspective and Cartesian mapping are deconstructed and amplified, deployed both as disorienting abstractions and as forms that yield a combination of possibilities and inhibitions. Space is continuously folded, stretched, compressed, disfigured, contorted, broken apart, and reintegrated.

By liberating illustrative representations and graphical systems from their sources and emphasizing the base materiality of the components, her works run contrary to a purely semiotic understanding of the diagram, according to which diagrams function independently of their concrete execution. Instead, Tarasewicz’s objects function more as tools: contingent, temporary, and variable engines of information that chart lines of flight between scales, dimensions, and events, displaying the consequences of entering objects into a system. They are at once representations of micro and macro processes, and bare demonstrations of their own thingness, the result of properties and constitutive relationships. Each work charts the haptic transformation of energy and concepts as they move from phenomena to representations and back again, making visible both the moments when symbols fail and when transmission and transposition yields unexpected results. More of a speculation than a collection of things, the exhibition is the presentation of an unpresentability.

text by Post Brothers

IZA TARASEWICZwas born in 1981 and raised in a small village near Bialystok, Poland. She graduated from the Faculty of Sculpture and Performing Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan, Poland in 2008. Her works serve as temporary conduits for a meeting of substances, energies, locations, temporalities, intonations, and concepts, which the artist identifies as only events in a continuous series of material and symbolic interactions. Her sensitive examination and transformation of materials is a complex interpretive exercise that often manifests in objects, spaces, graphs, drawings, sounds, videos, and performative actions. Her objects and arrangements are base things that resist the binary of natural and artificial, joining together quotidian, ignoble, or emblematic stuff such as clay, plaster, concrete, gold, steel, glass, tar, animal fat, skin, fur, intestines, plasticine, plant fibers, dung, and ash. Often bordering on hylozoism (the concept that all matter and non-matter has life), each object or arrangement is invested in exploring the affecting nature of its material makeup and challenges the viewer to consider both the vital energetic relationships in all things and the inextricable interrelation of chaos and order. Her investigative practice distills, combines, deconstructs and redirects materials so as to rediscover hidden aspects and relations, while equally signifying a contingency or deficiency in rational, human understanding to access such properties.

text by Post Brothers

Selected solo exhibitions:

2014

Collaborating Objects Radiating Environments, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

STRANGE ATTRACTORS, Polnisches Institut Berlin, Germany

2013

CLINAMEN, Krolikarnia X. Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture,National Museum, Warsaw, Poland

2011

CREATURE, a part of the ARTISTERIUM, International Contemporary Art Exhibition and Art Events, Tbilisi, Georgia

FRAME, Gallery Labirynt, Lublin, Poland

ONENESS, Platan Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2010

MOULT, Stereo Gallery, Poznan, Poland

CONNECTION, BWA Zielona Gora, Poland

2009

NUGGET, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland LAIR, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland

2008

BREADWINNER, Starter Gallery, Poznan

BRAWN, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok

2007

HAND MADE, Pies Gallery, Poznan

Selected group exhibitions:

2014

On Generation and Corruption, BWA Contemporary Art Gallery, Katowice, Poland

As You Can See: Polish Art Today, Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland

2013

EPIDEMIC, Center Of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland

POINT WITHOUT I, Arsenal Gallery, power station, Bialystok, Poland

TOOLS FOR CATCHING ONE’S BALANCE, in cooperation with Janek Simon, Arsenal Municipal Gallery, Poznan, Poland

ASK FOR SOMETHING THAT DOESN’T EXIST, in cooperation with Ana Roldan, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland

2012

LONGING, Labirynt Gallery, Lublin, Poland

SCONTRUM EVOLUTIONS, X. Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture, Warsaw, Poland

Es ist Zeit für Turnschuhe! / It’s time for sneakers! Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany

RED CROSSBAR, Salon Academy Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

MUSEUM PROBLEM, Frutta Gallery, Rome, Italy

WILL BE FINE, Stereo Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2011

IT’S OK WITH FINGERS, J Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

AT EASE, IT JUST CRASHES, Spokojna Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

REVOLVING DYSFUNCTION, Europe House, Tbilisi, Georgia

TRIBUTE TO FANGOR, BWA Warszawa/ Artbazaar, Warsaw, Poland

FEST I NOVA, Art Villa Garikula, Khaspi, Georgia

OPEN CITY, Festival of Art In Public Spaces, Lublin, Poland

MIR, Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland

EVERYTHING, Kolonie Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

TRANSYLVANIA 2, Arsenal Muticipal Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2010

TRANSYLVANIA 1, BWA Zielona Gora, Poland

IS YOUR MIND FULL OF GOOD, DPT Wigry, Poland

Gallery Czarnowska, Berlin, Germany

2009

ELMS THREADS BUSHES, in cooperation with Magda Starska, Stereo Gallery, Poznan, Poland

DIFFERENCE BEYOND DIFFERENCE, Stary Browar, Poznan, Poland
2008

ESTABLISHMENT(AND ITS DISCONTENS), Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

BODIES ADREAM, Arsenal Muticipal Gallery, Poznan, Poland

2007

HERE A CHANGE OCCURS, Kordegarda Gallery, Warsaw, Poland

Recordings:

ύβριςορατορίου/ oratory of hubris, a 12-inch vinyl record commissioned and released by ArtBazaar Records, 2013

Residences:

Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, funded by the Stiftung für Deutsche-Polnische Zusammenarbeit, 2013/2014

Capacete Enterteneminos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, funded by ‘Młoda Polska’ scholarship of Minister of Culture and National Heritage and National Centre for Culture NCK, Warsaw, Poland, 2013

A-I-R Laboratory-Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2013

Art Villa Garikula, Khaspi, Georgia, funded by Institute Of Adam Mickiewicz, Polish Embasy in Tbilisi, Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, 2011

Performance:

RESPONSE, Performance event, Felixstowe, Great Britain, 2010

SIMPLE CONSTRUCTIONS, Performance Art Days, Lviv, Ukraine, 2010

APNEA, International Women’s Day, Gallery Arsenal, Bialystok,Poland, 2010

MOST PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY DIED, performance at Penerstwo Group event, Lodz, Poland, 2009

GOOD AT HOME AND OUTDOOR, happening, Penerstwo Group artbook, Poznan, Poland, 2008

RE-GENERATION, International Art Exhibition In forgotten districts of Poznan (Srodka), Poland, 2007

RECYCLING, Poznan, Poland, 2006

Educational workshops, curatorial projects:

WHAT DIVIDES US IS WHAT JOINS US – a cycle of author’s art workshops for children of refugees from Chechnya and Georgia and Polish children (2010–2011), Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland

THE PROTOPLASM – group exhibition, curatorial project, Arsenal Gallery power station, Bialystok, Poland, 2010

Participation in workshops:
“ON AESTHETICS AND BIAS” – A PRACTICAL PERFORMANCE ART WORKSHOP FOR WOMEN, run by Adina Bar-On, organized by Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok, Poland, 2010

ACADEMY OF PERFORMANCE, run by Janusz Baldyga (Poland) and Barbara Sturm (Switzerland), organized by Labirynt Gallery in Lublin, Poland. The workshops took place in Lviv, Ukraine as a part of “Week of Actual Art”, 2010.

POST BROTHERS is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post – an independent curator and writer working between Białystok, Berlin, Antwerp and Oakland. Post Brothers received an MA in Curatorial Practice from the California College of the Arts, San Francisco (2009); and a BFA from Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver (2006). He has curated exhibitions and presented lectures and projects in Poland, Mexico, Canada, the United States, Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Italy, Greece, Finland, Belgium, The Netherlands, and China, where he contributed a video and an unrealized screenplay in the 9th Shanghai Biennale (2012). He recently curated “12 Hours,” a solo exhibition of Karl Larsson at Galerie Kamm in Berlin (2014), “The Excluded Third, Included,” a group exhibition at Galerie Emanuel Layr in Vienna (2014) and “Clinamen” a solo exhibition with Iza Tarasewicz at Xawery Dunikowski Museum of Sculpture (Krolikarnia), Department of the National Museum, Warsaw (2013). He has an ongoing library/publication project, “Memoirs Found in a Bathtub”, at Objectif Exhibitions in Antwerp. His essays and articles have been published in Annual Magazine, the Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, Cura, Fillip, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Nero, Art Papers, Pazmaker, Punkt, and Spike Art Quarterly, as well as in numerous artist publications and exhibition catalogues.

Production of the works was co-financed by

Media patrons

Curator: Post Brothers
Iza Tarasewicz

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10:00-18:00

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